get ready for Easter

Easter is only four weeks away, and this is the one Christian holiday that we cannot overlook. It is morning important than Christmas. Easter and the resurrection are literally the central fact of salvation and the Gospel story.

This week we are going to take a short look at five promises in the Old Testament of the coming messiah, the one sent from God. My hope is that we will prepare ourselves to celebrate Easter all the while seeing the gravity and meaning of the resurrection.

Watch how God has prepared us and the world for the coming of Jesus and His death. But remember that He is also coming again.

Psalm 45:6-7 NLT

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of justice. 7 You love justice and hate evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

The throne won’t be one that people expect.

The rule is unlike what others will have held.

The hating of evil and loving of righteousness is the same but stronger.

The anointing is something new, something eternal, and something that can never be erased.

This joy of the coming messiah is wrapped in the ugliness of sin and in the beauty of God’s unconditional love. The gap between humanity and Father God was so real but so painful for God himself. That is why Jesus was to come.

That is why Jesus came and that first Easter is to be celebrated again and again. Get ready, and may we see the beauty that came from such a cruel cross and opened up a grave.

This is the promise from God for us. Get ready for Easter.

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